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almost a quarter century. a can an 18 year old x minister reversed the parties, slow decline? ah, i've been fizzle and woke up. shine is quiet stance on you, crane and pressure on tie, one pose a serious security threat. according to japan. officials say the japanese are undertaking their biggest arms build up since the 2nd world war to deter by jane. there are also reports out today that the united states is considering producing weapons with taiwan. either providing the tech for production in taiwan or using taiwanese parts to make the weapons in the us. the taiwanese need help analysts question. they have fire power and say they're 4 months of mandatory military service is poor, which is why grass roots training groups is springing up sheesh hung

in an unsure a both students of kuma academy a private organization founded in 2021. and recently, given a donation of some 19000000 euros by taiwanese tycoon, robert sal. oh, the organization aims to give civil defense training to some 3000000 people over the next 3 years. oh, okay. today, under the watchful eye of his instructor, chase on yen carefully raises and moves. fellow students, posing his wounded. as china ramped up its rhetoric towards the taiwanese people, there unease about the islands future has been growing. she is among them. woman, we've been living on the silent for a long time. we have our own systems in our own lifestyles. most of us are reluctant to see that change. but the training here is not just about moving the wounded on a battlefield. after attending one of the days lectures and is doing some follow up

research on a phone about how to find this information, a common tactic in war sessions on this. it says it says information warfare is real and you can see it everywhere. i go home and i've been trying so hard to communicate with elderly people. i tell them not to believe thank needs or what's the logical ne, you feel frustrated because you don't have time to teach them how to distinguish the tale. and i me on them are though, this is dancing me. she got, he got up from and how to i thought by ho jing we, one of the co founders of coma academy says the classes aimed to foster a sense of hope among taiwanese people and show people how they can play a part in the national defense that she's even saturday after she jan ping took office in 2013 and the rising threats posed by china taiwan became a reality. and the example of the ukraine war has shown the taiwanese people that

the risk of war over taiwan is very possible. johnson wasn't under oh, but chase young in also knows that any possible aggression from mainland china doesn't necessarily start with a bullet. another reason why he finds qu, must training so important. how go and all males on tinge, many people are unaware that war might begin in different forms. for example, cyber attacks or trade wars. the whole china wants to destroy our will to resist. and they've been doing this for a while. civilians in their own ways are strengthening civil defense. no one wants a war of a taiwan, but she believes in preparing for the worst. jeff kingston is director of asian studies at temple university japan, a grass roots organization, given crash courses to tie when he citizens on civil defense. what does that tell you about? ty, one's preparedness well tells me that they're learning the lessons of ukraine,

and also underscores the huge military gap between china and taiwan. china has a 1000000 soldiers. taiwan has 80000. so after 2 decades of double digit increases, military spending on china side, taiwan this year has a record increase of 15 percent. but overall it's defense. budget remains around 20000000000 dollars, 110th of what china's is. so we used the government really doing enough because analysts of described mandatory service in taiwan, which is only a few months as poll and they're right when they ended conscription 2018. that was a big turning point of the short training period that people undergo. they don't

actually handle weapons, it's more conceptual. so yes, i agree with those analysts to believe that that is insufficient. and that's why i think the chip tycoon has stepped in, say, look, we need territorial defense. we also need to train snipers all this, the service of porcupine, national defense strategy, which is to make it too costly for china to invade. but as far as conventional warfare practices go, where does tie one stand, you think tie one does stand a chance against a giant like china? well, that's why i think that it behooves them to adopt a symmetrical systems like stinger missiles and mobile artillery. a type of, of weapon systems that are hard to target and hard to counter. and the united states has been making these available. and in the new u. s. defense budget,

this year mark low over $8000000000.00 of grants and loans to make this possible. and also seems united states is going to engage in joint military training. so i think everybody recognizes a lot more needs to be done. but i think that the ukraine has underscore the value of asymmetrical defense. and i think that taiwan will be pouring more of its efforts in that direction. m. r. o. very aware of roches intentions, as far as ukraine goes and the region. but what about china's intentions? china is of course, holding. it's coming to spotty congress this week. what has leadership doing? ping's speech told us no surprises. i mean, he reiterated was declared in the august white paper and taiwan, that china will not renounce the use of force. and they all take all means necessary to deal with what they refer to as the taiwan problem. but i think that she has seen what can go wrong with pollutants invasion of the ukraine. so i

think it probably makes it less likely that he will invade and any concerns from where you are, japan being the 2nd biggest economy in asia and important instability for the region. well, clearly a japan sees a threat to taiwan as a threat to japan. aah! last year. hum. huh. sions obey basically sent a very clear warning to china that a military attack on taiwan would lead to a japanese military response. and that's the 1st time in the postwar period the japan has ever made such a threat. ah, the current uh, key shita government has sort of tried to back pedal away from that. i think that they want to emphasize more on diplomacy. but clearly they have

a lot at stake and they are committed to the tense of chi won. but you know, as your report indicates, taiwan is very vulnerable to cyber attacks and also trade embargoes. and so these are bolder abilities that china, a bay exploit a short of invasion. if kinks in director of asian studies at temple university, japan, thank you very much for your analysis. thank you. oh, wisdom can come with old age, but there are downsides. time will tell with the new leader of india's main opposition congress party. molly casual, cut gay is a year older than you, as president biden, senior to indian prime minister and for modi by 8 years. and although carnegie is a departure from the influential naval gandhi leadership, he is a gandhi family. loyalist. he overwhelmingly won the votes of his secular party,

but modi's hot, right? nationalist b. j. p. still look set for a 3rd term in elections. drew by 2024 d w's delhi bureau chief, amrita cima joins us it. tell us more about than you, leader of in his congress potty. hi, ben will the new leader in this congress party? i generally category is 80 years old, as you mentioned. and he is a person with great amount of organizational skills at the regional local as well as at the national level. he was a minister for some 20 years that he was a clear favorite to win this election. and he's won my landslide now. there was some discussion about whether he would stand or not. it was a very last made decision by him to stand just one day before the nomination is closed. he said senior leaders asked him to stand for this position, but it's widely believed. it was actually that gandhi's behind it, this

a decision this more that he should stand and by the gandhi's i mean sonya gandhi. he was in to them a president of the congress party and her 2 children are whole and priyanka and riches. why the a born into category, she to rule described him as an unofficial official candidate to rule. in fact, as clear that they were in irregularities in the pony today. but this has been dismissed my, the officials of the congress party. so i did malika. gilley is now the president of the indian congress, spotty. well, i'm regards her. he's going to need those organizational skills if he's going to breathe new life into a party that does me change after being in opposition for so long. that's right, and that's what he says he wants to do kind of get. he said that he is very strongly for reform. the gum, the spartan. you had adopted a declaration earlier this year in me in which that goal for reform. and he said he strongly supports this more than he wants to breathe new life into the congress

party. for example, you says they must have younger people in the party. at least 50 percent of the positions should be held by people under the age of 50. he's dork on women's environment, empowerment of marginalized groups, and so on. but the question really is that the perception is that he represents the old god that he's the gun, the loyalist, that he represents the congress of the old and not something new. this is something he need to change. several younger communist leaders, bay, promising young congress leaders left the party in recent years because he got impatient because there was nothing happening. there were no opportunities. and a sense of drift had set into the party. for example, we saw the last 2 electrodes that congress was death emitted and has been losing regional election after regional election in recent years. so the big challenge by category is, can he turn the tide for the congress? now he has the skills, as i mentioned, organizational skills,

he has administrative skills, he has grassroots support and perhaps even the inclination to bring her by big change. but can he do it? danny? capture the imagination of young people, young congress voters. you have to remember that a 35 and 65 percent of the indian population is under the age of $35.00, can capture their imagination. it's a big ask it definitely it's going to take a lot to change people's minds in the lead up to the next national elections in 2024 and read a chamber for us in daily. thank you very much for the analysis and i'm been puzzling. i'll see you again, sir. ah, i will interest the global economy our portfolio d w business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance

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also coming up hong kong is leader says he wants to try the world for international talent to help revamp the financial hobbs economy. we'll talk to our correspondent about how the cities dealership wants to go about it. and we'll go to the u. k. where chimney sweeps are in high demand, as britons are reactivating their fireplaces and mit horrendous energy costs. i'm chris cobra. welcome to the program. liquefied natural gas is to provide europe's energy security in the coming winter amid the war and ukraine. russia isn't delivering the, as it used to, and trying to make itself independent from putin. fossil fuel deliveries. e countries have been buying a lot of ellen g from the middle east or the united states a times are bidding countries that are also heavily banking on liquefied natural gas like india, pakistan or myanmar. but now there are more than $35.00 l and g lead and.